State Investigates Response To Child Abuse

State Investigates Response To Child Abuse
POSTED: 12:39 pm PST November 26, 2010

SALEM, Ore. -- Most of the 26 investigations the state Department of Human Services has launched under Oregon's six-year-old Critical Incident Response Team, or CIRT, mandate have targeted cases where children died or were severely injured in the hands of their biological parents.
But Assistant DHS Director Erinn Kelley-Siel, who runs the agency's Children, Adults and Families Division that oversees child welfare and foster care, said she wants the agency to conduct more discretionary CIRTs into foster care abuse, or possibly even establish a new process to examine foster care troubles.

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